[BRLTTY] using BrlAPI and speech API in one program

[marquats at studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de]

Hello,

is it possible to use BrlAPI together with MS Speech API in the same
program? Or alternatively with a different speech API that is free (a
german voice should be available)?

I could use MinGW. I'd like to use Visual C++ instead, but I don't know if
BrlAPI can be used with it. I tried, but couldn't get it to work.

The program should output braille using a braille terminal and also spoken
text, and receive braille input from the braille terminal. It should
preferably have a graphical surface (GUI) so that it can output braille on
the screen also (graphical dot patterns). ASCII-graphics might be used as
a substitute, if a GUI is not feasible.

Thanks in advance for any hint,
Thomas Marquardt